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Goujons: A Jeremiad.

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  • 22-05-2015 10:30pm
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭


    So we're in a building with rudimentary enough canteen facilities. Microwave, toaster kettle etc., so most people bring their lunches with them, or go down to the local shops/cafes/restaurants. Today I didnt bring lunch, kids were off school so I snuck (sic?) out of the house rather than clattering around the kitchen making sandwiches.

    My man (adjacent cubicle drone) anyway said around lunchtime, that he didnt bring his lunch either , and would we go out for a sandwich. I said, will we go to the (modest) restaurant beside us. He said "fine, but I might have to borrow a fiver". I said "my treat, no worries".

    In we go, I order the toasted special at 6.50, hand my menu to the waitress. My man says he'll have the chicken goujons with chips and salad.

    So after horsing down the grub, I go up to pay. 18euro it came to (11.50 for his (saucy enough for f**kin goujons!!). As i was entering in my PIN, he said he had 7 euro and offered a handful of shrapnel. Surprised he had any money, I said "ah no, hang onto it, get me next time". The went back into his pocket in a blur.

    Now I know I had offered to pay as "my treat", thinking he had f**k all cash, but am I right in thinking the cute Kerry hoor stiffed me? He had 7, and could have got the tasted special, or even cheaper sandwiches, or soup and a roll etc. No, when he got wind I would be paying he ordered the f**kin goujons.

    Seeing as I am leaving next week, was i stiffed, he has no intention of getting me back?
    Should I have taken his 7, and cleaned him out?
    Should he have gotten something with the money he had?
    Should I order steak next week?
    Should I just blast him with piss, and to hell with his f**kin goujons?

    I dont know if i'll be able to sleep playing this out in my mind tonight...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,628 ✭✭✭Señor Fancy Pants


    You were screwed OP, no kissing either!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Husband?
    Boyfriend?
    Homie?
    Equerry?
    Lackey?
    Butler?
    Nordie?

    Who the hell is your man?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 640 ✭✭✭Tony Beetroot


    Who the hell is your man?

    jeremiah


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    You call that a jeremiad? Pah!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    catallus wrote: »
    You call that a jeremiad? Pah!
    I know, it doesn't even rhyme.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Husband?
    Boyfriend?
    Homie?
    Equerry?
    Lackey?
    Butler?
    Nordie?

    Who the hell is your man?

    An astonishing oversight on my part. I'm so upset I neglected to clarify.
    Now fixed


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,231 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    All this 'my man' talk makes it sound like a date. So, you paid, tough sh!t.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,733 ✭✭✭Duckworth_Luas


    Isn't Goujon Ajeremiad the President of Iran?


  • Subscribers Posts: 19,425 ✭✭✭✭Oryx


    It cost you 11.50 to learn never to be taken for such a mug again. A bargain, as life lessons go. (Tightwad will never buy you lunch btw)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,584 ✭✭✭Corben Dallas


    Order steak next week.

    that is all.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,117 ✭✭✭ceadaoin.


    He said he might need to borrow a fiver because he wanted the chicken goujons and knew that he only had 7 euros on him. He'd already said this before you offered to pay. he did try to give you money towards it but you refused. It's your own fault!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,707 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    when you say "my treat " you pay i don't believe this man is the master of deception


  • Registered Users Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    You got rogered, roger.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Sounds like a hungry bollix.

    Life is full of them.


    He's probably at home now thinking about how much he didn't spend while pulling his flute and picturing your face.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    He said he might need to borrow a fiver because he wanted the chicken goujons and knew that he only had 7 euros on him. He'd already said this before you offered to pay. he did try to give you money towards it but you refused. It's your own fault!

    I dont think anything sinister is going on, he did say could he borrow a fiver. You said "My treat". You could have given him a fiver and you'd be on here a month from now wondering when is the right time to ask for it back.

    Now you have the upper hand, wait for a few days after payday and ask him if he wants to go for lunch and casually go, oh and its your shout! If he runs away, then you got screwed. If he doles out for goujons for you it turns out, he didn't roger you, he is just normal.


  • Posts: 17,378 [Deleted User]


    Guy didn't do anything wrong.. He said he needed a fiver so you thought he had nothing when really, he just needed it to make going out for lunch worth it.
    Exact same result if you had taken his seven euro but you didn't because you're too polite. Or something.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Thinly veiled I've loads of money to buy everyone lunch and you're skint thread !

    21/25



  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 8,867 ✭✭✭eternal


    Fresh or frozen goujons?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    ceadaoin. wrote: »
    He said he might need to borrow a fiver because he wanted the chicken goujons and knew that he only had 7 euros on him. He'd already said this before you offered to pay. he did try to give you money towards it but you refused. It's your own fault!

    If roles were reversed, I'd have ordered something I could afford, certainly not something almost twice the cost of what the person who was offering to pay cost!


  • Registered Users Posts: 29,294 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    So in the end, you refused to take the difference, which woukd have resulted in him owing you LESS than a fiver.

    Yeah, tottally your own fault OP.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,793 ✭✭✭Sir Osis of Liver.


    Send him an invoice or burn his house down.

    The ball's in your court now OP.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    burn his house down.

    Thread is two days old and this is the first piece of constructive advice given to the op.This place is starting to slide,not a single suggestion of scat revenge whatsoever.Not even a fleeting mention :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Send him an invoice or burn his house down.

    The ball's in your court now OP.

    After I get my steak?


  • Registered Users Posts: 19,802 ✭✭✭✭suicide_circus


    Gotta watch out for those adjacent cubical drones


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    After I get my steak?

    Naturally...


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    next time when you offer to buy someone lunch make sure you specify that they're limited to the 3 cheapest things on the menu only. Tight ass.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    Guy didn't do anything wrong.. He said he needed a fiver so you thought he had nothing when really, he just needed it to make going out for lunch worth it.
    Exact same result if you had taken his seven euro but you didn't because you're too polite. Or something.
    next time when you offer to buy someone lunch make sure you specify that they're limited to the 3 cheapest things on the menu only. Tight ass.

    f**k it now I feel bad I didn't get the Meursault he was eyeing...


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